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The Bare Minimum UX Research That Still Works (3-Steps Method)
, UX Planet - Medium
It’s not very uncommon to get a UX design request at the very last moment — an urgent need for a fabulous output in one week… or less. As competent, experienced, efficient designers, our immediate instinct might be to open Figma, hit “New Design File,” and dive in — click click click…
But wait — did we pause to conduct even a quick UX study? ‘No time for that!’ and already knee-deep in designs. That’s where things start to get murky — making educated guesses instead of informed decisions.
Designing for the Immersive World: A UX Designer’s Guide to AR, VR, and XR
, UX Planet - Medium
As technology moves beyond flat screens into 3D spaces, designers face a new challenge: creating experiences that users don’t just see, but step into. Whether it’s Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), or Extended Reality (XR), immersive tech is reshaping how we interact with the digital world.
This article is a practical guide for UX designers who want to explore immersive design — from key terms to real-world use cases. We’ll walk through principles, devices, interaction models, and even digital twins.
Why Most Platform Projects Fail on Content — And How AI Can Fix It
, UX Planet - Medium
How the Content Horizons Model helps to run better platform projects and stand out with killer content
How I Built a Shopify App in a Weekend — as a Designer with AI
, UX Planet - Medium
How I Built a Shopify App in a Weekend — as a Designer with AIFrom product designer to app store publisher in 72 hours — and what that taught me about design, code, and creativity.
I’ve spent nearly a decade in Product Design— designing for fintech, startups, and complex enterprise systems. I’ve helped shape products from early ideation to polished rollouts. But launching something truly mine — fully designed, built, and published by me — was a milestone I hadn’t yet hit. Not fully. Not publicly.
How LinkedIn passed $2bn in subscription revenue
, UX Collective - Medium
And they’re still missing out on their potential
AI Is Here — Where Is Seaman?
, UX Collective - Medium
AI is here — so where is Seaman?We need software and stories and tools that don’t promise utility but deliver unease.Image AI Generated (Midjourney)Before the panic about AI became an ambient hum in our daily lives, it arrived in stranger, funnier, more unsettling form. Before voice assistants became household fixtures and AI crept into the rhythms of our daily lives, long before Siri chimed in from the kitchen counter or Alexa responded to timers and trivia, a creature with the bored expression of a man trapped in a fish’s body invited you into a kind of relationship that felt, in its way, profoundly human in 1999.
Then out of nowhere, he’d stare straight through you with the bemused detachment of a Lovecraftian therapist, asking why you’re still single, or whether you’re really happy with how your life is turning out.You adjusted water levels. You fed it crickets. You waited. And waited. There was a lot of waiting. Then out of nowhere, he’d stare straight through you with the bemused detachment of a Lovecraftian therapist, asking why you’re still single, or whether you’re really happy with how your life is turning out. It asked questions you weren’t ready to answer. One moment, it was inquiring whether you considered yourself a good parent; the next, it was interrupting your contemplative pause with a withering, “That hesitation says a lot.” All of a sudden you weren’t just playing a game anymore. You were having a conversation with something that looked like it had better things to do. The deeper you went, the weirder it got. It asked if you’d ever cheated on a test. If you asked it a philosophical question, it might redirect with a tone that wasn’t dodging the question so much as challenging your right to ask it in the first place — “Let’s not pretend you’ve thought that through.” The thing would even accuse you of being selfish or lazy, depending on how consistently you fed it. One player reported asking it if it believed in God, only for it to pause and respond: “I think that’s your problem, not mine.”
20 Years of MeasuringU: Celebrating with the UX Community
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Join us as we celebrate 20 years of innovation and partnership in UX Research on Thursday, August 7th, from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM in the RiNo neighborhood of Denver. We’re excited to invite you to our anniversary happy hour – a special gathering for our valued customers, clients, and the entire UX community to connect, reminisce, and look to the future.
Avoiding UX malpractice
, UX Collective - Medium
Diagnosing UX problems through Garrett’s Elements of User Experience.You walk into a doctor’s office with sharp stomach pain. You describe your symptoms in great detail, outlining all the issues and how they’re impacting you. The doctor patiently listens, then says, “I have just the thing. BRB.” After a few moments, the doc returns and hands you a little bottle. “Try this,” they say. “It works for most people.” You look at the bottle, and it’s a basic, over the counter pain killer.
You leave with that bottle and a weird feeling in your gut (both literal and metaphorical). Sure, this might dull the pain, but does it really solve it? What if the real issue isn’t temporary? Or it’s something deeper that needs more than a brief description to understand?
AI needs a new UI
, UX Collective - Medium
For AI to succeed, we’ll need to devise new interface patterns that support its capabilities rather than copy those patterns of the technology it seeks to replace.As the joke goes, the best place to hide a body is on the 2nd page of google results. No one clicks to the next page.
The Google search paradigmGoogle built the paradigm for all of search around an extremely simple user experience: user asks a simple question (search query) and Google serves up relevant results in the first few entries. A design principle of Google early on was that they would not ask anything more from the user. This was revolutionary–I remember earlier search engines such as Lycos, Alta Vista, Yahoo employing various filtering tools as part of the experience. Google’s genius was doing the opposite: they focused all of the improvements on delivering better results while explicitly never asking more of the user.
Schools of Thought on Sample Sizes in UX Research
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Five users are enough. Or do you need a large sample size to make statistically significant claims?
One of the enduring controversies and sources of confusion in UX research concerns sample size.
